Doughboys, the Great War, and the remaking of America
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Doughboys, the Great War, and the remaking of America
(War, society, culture)
Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001
- : cloth
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- A force to call our own : establishing a national army
- Americans as warriors
- The meaning of obedience
- The politics of race : racial violence and harmony in the wartime army
- Forging their own alliances : American soldiers' relations with the French and Germans
- The legacy of the war for the army
- War memories : re-examining the social contract
- The Yanks are starving everywhere : the Bonus March
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Description
How does a democratic government conscript citizens, turn them into soldiers who can fight effectively against a highly-trained enemy, and then somehow reward these troops for their service? In this account, Jennifer D. Keene argues that the doughboy experience in 1917-18 forged the US Army of the 20th century and ultimately led to the most sweeping piece of social-welfare legislation in the nation's history - the G.I. Bill. Keene shows how citizen-soldiers established standards of discipline that the army in a sense had to adopt. Even after these troops had returned to civilian life, lessons learned by the army during its first experience with a mass conscripted force continued to influence the military as an institution. Moreover, the experience of going into uniform and fighting abroad politicized citizen-soldiers in ways that Keene asks us to ponder. She argues that the country and the conscripts - in their view - entered into a certain social compact, one that assured veterans that the federal government owed conscripted soldiers of the 20th century debts far in excess of the pensions the Grand Army of the Republic had claimed in the late-19th century.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Force to Call Our Own: Establishing the National Army
Chapter 2. Americans as Warriors
Chapter 3. The Meaning of Obedience
Chapter 4. The Politics of Race: Racial Violence and Harmony in the Wartime Army
Chapter 5. Forging Their Own Alliances: American Soldier's Relations with the French and Germans
Chapter 6. The Legacy of the War for the Army
Chapter 7. War Memories: Re-Examining the Social Contract
Chapter 8. 'The Yanks Are Starving Everywhere': The Bonus MarchEpilogue - The War's Final Legacy for the Country: The GI Bill
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